Pro- option demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court on November 01, 2021 in Washington, DC.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a demand from Texas abortion suppliers to instantly send their case challenging the state’s stringent abortion law back to a lower court.
Doing so likely would have permitted the abortion suppliers and supporters to continue faster with their case versus the law, which prohibits most abortions in Texas after as early as 6 weeks of pregnancy. Instead, the judgment is most likely to lengthen the legal fight.
The high court in December stated that a suit versus the restriction might continue, while keeping the law in impact.
Opponents of the restriction desired the case to go back to a federal district court. On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit sent out the case to the Republican- managed Texas Supreme Court, and it is uncertain how quickly that court will take it up.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Thursday afternoon order rejected the abortion suppliers’ demand to force the 5th Circuit to return the case to the district court.
The 3 liberal justices on the nine-member bench dissented to the order.
“Instead of stopping a Fifth Circuit panel from indulging Texas’ newest delay tactics, the Court allows the State yet again to extend the deprivation of the federal constitutional rights of its citizens through procedural manipulation,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor composed in her dissent, signed up with by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan.
“The Court may look the other way, but I cannot,” Sotomayor composed.
